A few reasons I hate my job. w/photos

[crust]

Have to drive to remote areas for small repairs.



Old technology,


Terrible fashion requirements.


Lots of junker vehicles.

 

[CJim7]

I hate you.

I left Gods Country (Montana) and ended up in some flat, dusty, dirty area where the locals all smell like potatoes, speak little english, and the nearest pine tree is a 2-hour drive.

 

[kickitandholdit]

im not even sure what to post on this thread.

 

[Coach]

I dont know you and haven't been on the site long, but I feel sorry for you being forced to work under conditions like that.

 

[IOPort51]

Boy It really sucks to be you, doesn't it.

 

[Old Dog]

Boy It really sucks to be you, doesn't it.

That snowblower would make short work of the snow around here.

 

[crust]

That snowblower would make short work of the snow around here.

You should see what it does to snow posts or barricades.

 

[voyageur]

I know what you mean! The county I live in is one of the largest in the state and has absolutely 'O' traffic lights. After 9 p.m. you can hear nuthin' unless you go down to The Mother Lode, the Rimrock or, maybe the Wild Coyote out on Prospect Creek up towards the pass.

About 8 a.m. there is a traffic jam (5 vehicles in a row) at the 4 way stop to get on to main street. The streets are laid out up and down the hill and they'll be gettin' around to the potholes pretty soon.

I've included a picture so you can see the town... it is clearly visible at the bend of the river (center right, I think).

 

[CJim7]

I know what you mean! The county I live in is one of the largest in the state and has absolutely 'O' traffic lights. After 9 p.m. you can hear nuthin' unless you go down to The Mother Lode, the Rimrock or, maybe the Wild Coyote out on Prospect Creek up towards the pass.

About 8 a.m. there is a traffic jam (5 vehicles in a row) at the 4 way stop to get on to main street. The streets are laid out up and down the hill and they'll be gettin' around to the potholes pretty soon.

I've included a picture so you can see the town... it is clearly visible at the bend of the river (center right, I think).

OK, I hate you too
Im still kicking myself in the butt for leaving Montana.

 

[Busted Knuckles]

Another "site" I hang out on, you would be awarded with a big "YOU SUCK" ! Meant in the most affectionate, and envious way.
I would do just about anything to trade places with you, I love Montana. The S/O was born and raised there, so when we go visit her folks, I go wheeling.

We would be living out there somewhere, if she didn't have such a good job in this poop-hole we call home. I'm from Michigan, and would love to at least get back up there, but would really love to be in NW Montana, Northern ID, or even Western Oregon.

Enjoy what you got, lots of us would like to have it !

Oh and here's a bizarre comment, the Uni-mog, the S/O wants one... how strange is that. I will have to show her the pic of the one you have there with a loader on it.

 

[crust]

Oh and here's a bizarre comment, the Uni-mog, the S/O wants one... how strange is that. I will have to show her the pic of the one you have there with a loader on it.

Then you gotta show her this.

They are fun. but the older ones like ours are brutally uncomfortable if you are taller than 5'6".

 

[Busted Knuckles]

Then you gotta show her this.

They are fun. but the older ones like ours are brutally uncomfortable if you are taller than 5'6".

Oh, I think I just figured it out, for some reason, I thought you where in NW Montana, but your in Pollock Pines, CA, the last stop for gas on your way to Icehouse ? Ive wheeled your area in November, in the Sierra Cement. My Avatar photo was taken in the Eldorado National Forest.

I'm 6'4, shes over 6', so we probably wouldn't fit. She will see this tonight after dinner. Shes goofy enough, that I wont be surprised to get a call to go look at a Uni-mog somewhere. Stranger things have happened with her. She's sent me to SF to pick up a Benz, and rural NC to pick up an AC Cobra....!

A couple cow towns away, somebody collects Uni-Mogs, and when we pass through there, she starts talking about them.

 

[crust]

The first picture was taken at the work camp we had for our crew working on Rubicon, repairing/preventing erosion. This is one of the many ways to avoid the bottleneck going in to the trail.

Hope you had a good run while you were here. I have not been real wheeling for about 6 years.

Drop me a PM if you are back out this way.

 

[BrockGrimes]

I want it:

 

[Busted Knuckles]

The first picture was taken at the work camp we had for our crew working on Rubicon, repairing/preventing erosion. This is one of the many ways to avoid the bottleneck going in to the trail.

Hope you had a good run while you were here. I have not been real wheeling for about 6 years.

Drop me a PM if you are back out this way.

Thanks, I will do that...

Over the last 10 years, I worked on and off for a contractor that lives and has his office in Placerville. He hired me to work the Midwest, but always had more work on the west coast, so I'm pretty familiar with the I5 Corridor as well the greater Bay and SAC area. I bought a Jeep, and left it out there so Id have something to do on the weekends, for I would be out there for about 9 months at a time, and drive an extended E350 for work.

Ive run the Rubicon 3 times (not really my idea of a good time but was with buddies that wanted to do it), but prefer running the fire roads and visiting places Malakof Diggins Mine, and North Bloomfield. I hooked up with a guy that was a California history buff, and who liked to wheel, so we did lots of off road sight seeing. With the economy dead, Ive not been out there since 07.

You probably recognize the location of that attached images...

Now having wheeled all over the west, can you imagine how hard it is for me to come back home the barren flat farm land of Illinois ?

 

[crust]

Ive run the Rubicon 3 times (not really my idea of a good time but was with buddies that wanted to do it), but prefer running the fire roads

You probably recognize the location of that attached images...

Now having wheeled all over the west, can you imagine how hard it is for me to come back home the barren flat farm land of Illinois ?

I hear you about the Rubicon. Last time I was there was Memorial Day '03. Took like 7 hours to go 3 miles. I have been told it has little become less crowded in the last few years. The '76 CJ I am trying to rebuild will be set up for fire trails and light rocks. Read my signature, and that is just our county.

I also feel for you on the Po-dunk Illinois, I spent a year out there as a kid in Hinsdale. Just looked at at Google maps, way different. We were there in 1976.

 

[Busted Knuckles]

I hear you about the Rubicon. Last time I was there was Memorial Day '03. Took like 7 hours to go 3 miles. I have been told it has little become less crowded in the last few years. The '76 CJ I am trying to rebuild will be set up for fire trails and light rocks. Read my signature, and that is just our county.

I also feel for you on the Po-dunk Illinois, I spent a year out there as a kid in Hinsdale. Just looked at at Google maps, way different. We were there in 1976.

I know where Hinsdale is, I took some classes there years ago, that would be like living in SAC suburbs today, its very congested.

My first run on the Rubicon, we left from the Loon Lake entrance, in the early AM, and traffic was so bad, that we set up camp at Spider Lake around 5pm. I remember standing on a rock and pointing back over the lake and saying to a buddy, "Isn't that where we started out this morning ?"

Don't know how far we went, but I figured if you could plainly see it, you didn't go to far.

Yeah, the 2000+ miles of fire roads is sweet, thats about the road mileage from hear to your place,... If I had to live in CA, it would be up where you are at, and thats it, well maybe up to true northern CA, because I cant really tell the difference from there and Oregon.

Its kinda funny, as much time as I spent working out there, I threatened to move out west, and the guy I worked for would not stand for it. "I need you in the Midwest", but I'm like "I'm always here on the coast!" Turns out he won, I'm still here. The only upside being that I'm now jobless, I can live here for almost free, compared to the west coast, where I would be living under an overpass...

 

[voyageur]

I reckon I know what you fellas mean and I'm sorry for ribbing you. Being stuck where you don't really want to be just ain't funny.

There is, however, a downside to everything. When I was younger I used to build custom firearms and guide big game hunts. Dealing with the public can be wearing and I kept withdrawing until I only would take orders over the land line. Even then it wasn't easy.

Big game guiding? There's some folks that make it almost agony to take them out. They have it in their minds what it would be like and find out that going after big game is cold, hard, bloody work. It was doing this type of work that brought me to the realization that some folks are just plain scared to be in the woods.

Even though I'm too old to do those sorts of things anymore, I still enjoy just driving around in the mountains and getting out now and then to take a little walk. When I was young I had a CJ2a that I used for those quiet times but I let a fella who did fancy engraving talk me out of it. Now, after a lot of looking, I've got my little CJ5 to drive around. My son found it while I was up in Alaska and I cannot thank him enough. That boy (he's in his 40s) just doesn't stop helping me out.

Even my wife is supportive and wants me to either have the CJ5 professionally restored or spend money on finding an old Willys pickup that is already in good running order... or both. For me, it just doesn't get any better than I have it now.

I'm not trying to brag or tease you about this... I just thought you might like to know.

 

[ken98k]

Another "site" I hang out on, you would be awarded with a big "YOU SUCK" ! Meant in the most affectionate,and envious way.

Would that other site be SFT?

 

[Busted Knuckles]

Would that other site be SFT?

no, the site is the GJ,..... what is SFT ?